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Jan 30, 2015

Happy Friday! Here's another card I made at my recent class, focusing on love, weddings and babies. It's a cute Valentines card using the One Tag Fits All stamp set and the Stacked with Love DSP stack. Both of these products are so versatile that they can be used for many occasions!

I used the front and back side of the DSP for the patterned pieces, and by pairing the focal image with Blendabilities to colour the rhinestones and the staple (holding the ribbon), this card goes from simple to 'wow' easily. Just a few extra touches can make all the difference!

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Jan 28, 2015

This was one of my favourite cards this year! I used Pool Party card stock, embossed with the Lucky Stars embossing folder. The Santa is from the Get Your Santa On stamp set. That little Santa is so cute!

Here's another stamp from the Get Your Santa On stamp set! This little fireplace lends itself beautifully to colouring using our Blendabilities markers. I used the skin tone markers to colour the fireplace. This is such a simple card, I didn't even add a sentiment. I wanted the fireplace to hold centre stage.

This card looks great in real life, the photo just doesn't do it justice. Using Coastal Cabana ink on Crumb Cake card stock gives a really nice vintage blue effect. I sponged the stars using Whisper White Craft ink with the Stars mask, then stamped the tree from Festival of Trees and the sentiment from the Wondrous Wreath set. A small bow of linen thread finishes the card off. Good news: both these stamp sets are still available as carry-over items from our holiday mini catalogue!

This card and tag set came straight from the November Paper Pumpkin kit. The snowflake gate-fold card is held together with white and silver twine, which was also included in the kit. The colours are Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Whisper White and silver.

This next set of cards were inspired by the Nordic Noel DSP from the holiday catalogue. The card on the right features a large block of the DSP, wrapped with white satin ribbon. The ornaments were cut directly out of another sheet of the DSP and adhered with dimensionals. The presents on the left-hand card were cut out of the DSP as well, and adhered in a pile on a white base. This DSP has some amazing patterns and these cards really allow the DSP to shine!

This final card was one of my most popular designs over my Christmas events. The tree image was punched out of the white layer, and because the stamp are photopolymer, it was easy to line up the tree image from Festival of Trees with the punched out shape. Stars were punched out using the Confetti Stars border punch, and put in a shaker frame with a window sheet over the top. Lost Lagoon ribbon was tied around the card, with a white twine bow and an All Is Calm snowflake embellishment attached. The sentiment, also from Festival of Trees was stamped in Lost Lagoon ink at the bottom right hand side of the tree.

Thank you so much for reading this far! If you have any questions about the products I've used, or how you can come to a class to make some cards for yourself, please do feel free to contact me! I'd love to hear from you!

Jan 26, 2015

I realized that I never posted pictures of any Christmas cards I made this year! The school council at my son's school ran a Grade 8 fundraiser selling greeting cards for Christmas. We sold modern and traditional Christmas cards. Here are a few pictures of some of the designs! I had over 150 cards to make within the week, so it was busy but we made a good dent in the fundraising plan!

This one uses Wisteria Wonder, Silver Glimmer Paper and Whisper White, and the Ornamental Pine stamp set. The pinecone images are covered in Dazzling Diamonds glitter.

This card has a base of Baked Brown Sugar, with a Lost Lagoon layer and Very Vanilla. The stamp is from Seasonally Scattered, and the ribbon accent contains our Natural Chevron ribbon, Lost Lagoon taffeta ribbon and Gold Sequin trim.

Here's a cute card using the Get Your Santa On stamp set, with Crumb Cake, Real Red and Whisper White card stock. I used our Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities to colour in the Santa image.

I used some retired stamps on this card: Snowflake Soiree and Greetings of the Season. The colours are Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant and Very Vanilla.

This is a cute card using the specialty sheets from All Is Calm DSP. The sentiment is from Mingle All The Way, and I cut out the stars using the Stars Framelits.

This card is so simple to recreate! The card base is Blackberry Bliss with a layer of Gold Foil card stock. Another layer of Blackberry Bliss is stamped with the Dotty Angles stamp set in Gold Encore ink, and the sentiment (retired) is from the Greetings of the Season stamp set.

Here's another card using the Snowflake Soiree stamp set. I used the emboss resist technique and sponged around the snowflakes in Island Indigo, Coastal Cabana and Pool Party. A few sequins, some silver glimmer paper and a sentiment from Good Greetings finished the card off.

Check back later this week for some more of my Christmas cards! I'll also have some samples using new Occasions catalogue and Sale-A-Bration goodies :)

Jan 22, 2015

Hi! We're almost at the end of the first month of Sale-A-Bration; have you gotten your SAB freebies yet?

There are some amazing products in the new Occasions mini catalogue. Today I have a card using some of the new Something Borrowed DSP and the Sahara Sand lace trim in the 'weddings' section of the catalogue. I paired the new products with an older stamp set, called Cheers To Love from the Annual Catalogue.

Without further ado:

In class, we dressed this card up with some pearls on the left hand side. If you are interested in purchasing any of these products or coming to a class with me, please visit me online here, or click on the items below.

Who Am I?

I joined Stampin' Up! in January 2011 after hosting a workshop at my home. Once I got my hands on the products, I was hooked! Stampin' Up! allows me to stay at home with my children, go to school, and have a job doing something I love. Being able to send 'handmade hugs' to my favourite people is incredibly rewarding!